Word: blanks
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...sense of human touch” to Harvard’s story. “Now’s the time or never to bring John Harvard forward again back from the past,” Van Devere said. “As a dramatist, I look at this blank slate and don’t have to impose anything. I can pull things out that have been obscured by time.” Consisting of several Harvard undergraduates, the cast of “John Harvard” started rehearsing two and a half months prior...
Arab refusal to cooperate with the Israeli authorities has some odd consequences. In a Jerusalem telephone book, for example, maps of Arab neighborhoods are blank, like unexplored parts of the Amazon in the 19th century. That's because no Arab sits on the municipal committee that chooses street names. On the rare occasion when the committee bothers with East Jerusalem, it is to irritate the Arabs by naming a few streets after Israeli war heroes. Mail is seldom delivered there, and having no street names adds to the Arabs' perception that in Israeli society they are either invisible, nonexistent...
...composed mostly of students from Boston-area colleges and universities, but also spectators who joined in along the way—marched in silence for four miles from Boston Common to Marsh Plaza to protest America’s involvement in the Iraq conflict. Marchers filled in the blank on their signs with everything from the general—“Student”—to the specific—“Photographer,” “Scientist,” and “Painter”—to the humorous?...
...lead at home. That should be a recipe for a win to have the lead at home.”After Donato pulled Richter, the team applied tremendous pressure to Raiders goaltender Mark Dekanich in the last 35 seconds, only to see the backstop repel two last-second, point-blank attempts by Taylor and sophomore Doug Rogers as the Crimson crashed the net.The ending evoked all the more frustration given that the game remained close from the opening faceoff.In the first period, the Crimson outshot the Raiders, 11-9, but Colgate’s hard-hitting defensemen kept...
...line inspired the Crimson to arguably its best quarter of the season.Freshman Bret Voith singlehandedly torched the Blue Jays defense, scoring three of the last four goals of the game, including a spectacular display of strength where he broke away from a defender and successfully launched a point-blank shot to give Harvard an 8-6 lead.“Voith just took over,” Farrar said. “He had some great working-class, blue-collar type of goals late in the game.”With three minutes left, the Crimson defense once again stepped...